This photo taken April 29, 2014, shows Victor Shoemaker Sr., and his wife Nettie Shoemaker posing for a photograph in their son's bedroom in their home in Leesburg, Va. The bedroom has been left the way it was when twenty years ago Victor Dwight Shoemaker Jr., vanished while playing with two cousins along a West Virginia mountainside, his parents hold the belief that their only child is still alive. The boy known as J.R. had been in the woods behind his grandfather's mobile home in Hampshire County when two cousins emerged without him on May 1, 1994. No trace of him was ever found. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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